Of course, in addition to these reforms in farm tools, Zhao Feng also installed waterwheels in many places, using waterwheels to form a very complete irrigation system.
Although Zhao County, where Zhao Feng and the others live, is close to the south, it is not as rainy as other southern areas, and droughts even occur frequently.
Even if there is no drought as severe as last year, there will still be some drought situations.
Now Zhao Feng has installed water trucks in various places and formed an irrigation system. Even in drought, irrigation can be easily carried out.
After seeing Zhao Feng's reforms here, Liu Wei, who originally dismissed Zhao Feng, couldn't help but become more and more shocked.
Before, Liu Wei thought that Zhao Feng was just an uneducated person who became a county magistrate through unknown connections. After all, Zhao Feng had no fame.
But after seeing the reforms carried out by Zhao Feng in the county, Liu Wei was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out.
Before coming to monitor Zhao Feng, Liu Wei had been following Zhou Zhen.
Since Zhou Zhen would occasionally go on inspection tours in various places, Liu Wei would also see the conditions in various places and have a very good understanding of the people's livelihood sufferings.
When Liu Wei first came to Zhao County, he saw the situation of the people here and felt that there was no special difference. It was just that they were poorer than the people in other places.
After understanding Zhao Qian's situation, Liu Wei realized that there was a drought here last year. If there was a drought, it would be understandable that the people here would become so poor.
But when Liu Wei followed Zhao Feng to the countryside, he discovered that the situation in several surrounding towns and villages was actually better than that in the county. Not only did the people have enough food at home, but everyone was also full of energy. It doesn't look like it's been hit by a drought at all.
After asking Liu Wei carefully, he found out that these people did not suffer as severe a drought as other places because the waterwheel built by Zhao Feng ensured the harvest in the fields last year.
After seeing the structure of this waterwheel, Liu Wei couldn't help but be shocked. He had never seen anything like this anywhere else.
Maybe it's because Liu Wei is following Zhou Zhen, which makes his pattern become bigger.
After seeing the benefits of this waterwheel, Liu Wei suddenly thought that if this waterwheel could be extended to the entire Zhou Dynasty, then the entire Zhou Dynasty would no longer have to worry about drought.
So Liu Wei described the waterwheel in detail and drew all its structures on the drawings, intending to send it back to the capital to report to Zhou Zhen.
But before Liu Wei sent the letter, Zhao Feng improved farm tools again.
Liu Wei didn't know much about farm tools, but he knew that the Zhou Dynasty had very strict restrictions on the number of iron tools. In addition to the quantity limit, there were also very strict restrictions on the weight of the iron used in farm tools. This was mainly to enable These metal utensils were given priority to soldiers fighting abroad.
The Great Zhou Dynasty not only suffered from internal and external troubles, but also had frequent warriors from several countries that had been facing borders over the years. This also caused all the iron ore produced within the Great Zhou Dynasty to be supplied to those soldiers fighting on the front lines.
And this is the reason why the Zhou Dynasty restricted the number of folk ironware and controlled the weight of ironware!
Even if any one person were to change, it would be impossible to solve this matter, because this is a rigid rule of the imperial court, so it would be good to have a few farm tools made of iron in each township or even each village.
But what Liu Wei didn't expect was that Zhao Feng simply abandoned the original iron farm tool frames and instead used a large amount of wood to make them.
Farm tool heads made of iron are used only where the material needs to be in contact with the land.
This not only greatly reduced the amount of iron used in farm tools, but the iron used to make one farm tool could be used to make three or four farm tools.
The amount of iron used did not increase, but the number of farm tools tripled!
Moreover, the farm tools designed by Zhao Feng were really easy to use. Liu Wei also tried them and found that even he who had never done farm work felt very comfortable when using these farm tools.
All these experiences were written down in the memorial by Liu Wei. Originally, Liu Wei was very subjective, thinking that Zhao Feng was just an ordinary county magistrate, and wanted Zhou Zhen to transfer him back quickly.
But now after seeing all the incredible things that happened to Zhao Feng, Liu Wei found that it might be better for him to stay here than in the palace.
After Zhou Zhen received the letter from Liu Wei, he carefully read what was said in the letter, then looked at the drawings, and couldn't help laughing.
"It seems that the talent Kang'er recommended to me is really good."
"Give these drawings to the Ministry of Household Affairs and ask them to make them according to the drawings and promote them to various state capitals in the Zhou Dynasty."
"These things are good treasures that benefit the country and the people!"
The eunuch chief next to him nodded in shock and carefully took the drawings.
Zhou Zhen thought for a moment and felt that just improving agriculture would not be a problem for Zhao Feng.
After all, even if the waterwheel and agricultural tools that Zhao Feng created have not been tested, Zhou Zhen can feel that once these things are implemented, they will definitely improve the agricultural level of various places in the Zhou Dynasty. .
In fact, it is not that complicated to improve the level of agriculture. It is nothing more than how to improve farmers' farming efficiency and how to ensure that crops grow well in the fields.
Regarding this, Zhao Feng proposed two measures. In order to improve the efficiency of farmers, Zhao Feng designed agricultural tools so that one person can complete the work that originally took several people.
In order to ensure that those crops grow well, Zhao Feng designed a waterwheel to ensure irrigation.
At the same time, last year, the work-for-relief program proposed by Huaigu Fucheng allowed the people to produce some fertilizers, which have now been applied to the farmland by the people.
Although it is not yet known whether these fertilizers can increase the yield of those crops, Zhou Zhen has already begun to arrange for people to imitate the production of these fertilizers.
"It seems that this person has a lot of talents. No, I have to examine him carefully again!"
Zhou Zhen was thinking this in his heart, and couldn't help but smile.
Zhao Feng had no idea that everything he did was copied by the emperor, but instead continued to propose many measures.
